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Unused vs Unhandseled - What's the difference?

unused | unhandseled |

As adjectives the difference between unused and unhandseled

is that unused is not used while unhandseled is unused; untouched; pure.

unused

English

Usage notes

The second pronunciation () pronunciation, which is acceptable for either sense and is normally used for the "not used" sense in all registers.

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not used
    • I have two unused vouchers for a free meal.
  • not accustomed
    • I am unused to the dark nights of the countryside.

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    unhandseled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) unused; untouched; pure
  • * 1837 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, On the American Scholar
    • Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandseled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and berserkers, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.